Monday, October 31, 2016

Perri Nemiroff, Jon Schnepp and Josh Macuga sit down for a special interview with the chin himself - the Groovy One known as Bruce Campbell star of 'Ash vs Evil Dead!' The team talk Bruce's career and what we can expect to see on this season of Ash vs Evil Dead!

An angry mob corners Ash and the team in Brock's house while Ruby tries to summon the spell to send Baal back to hell. Ash finally proves to the townsfolk he is not a murderer but a hero, when a familiar deadite comes for him.

Sunday, October 30, 2016

It's the fifth episode of #AfterAsh with the Collider Nightmares panel of Perri Nemiroff, Jon Schnepp and Mark Reilly! The official after show of the Starz series 'Ash vs Evil Dead' will now look at episode 5 of the second season with "Confinement."

We will be bringing you a new episode after the show every Sunday. So enjoy the show and we'll see you next week! Remember, keep it groovy.

Overall, we got a very exciting and capable episode of Ash vs Evil Dead this week. What it could mean for the future and what it means for the show’s continued success in the present were delivered on in spades. The next five episodes are promising to be a real hoot.

One of the greatest scenes ever in a horror film is the “blood test” sequence in John Carpenter’s The Thing. The moment is set up when MacReady (Kurt Russell) administers blood tests to uncover who is infected by the Thing. Palmer (David Clennon) is unmasked as an imitation and transforms into a creature that kills Windows (Thomas G. Waites).

While we’re unsure what will happen in next week’s episode of “Ash vs Evil Dead”, one thing is for certain, they’re giving homage to The Thing.

Perri Nemiroff and Mark Reilly sit down for a special interview with 'Ash vs Evil Dead' star Ray Santiago about his role as Pablo and what we can expect to see in the future for his character in the second season of the Starz series. Groovy.

It's always interesting to see how a television show evolves when it comes to how it tells a story and for proof of that, look no further than Ash vs. Evil Dead. After all, last year, the show was inclined to go with a slow burn for its story arc. Dropping only little nuggets of plot points our way week in and week out before finally revealing everything and anything over the course of an epic three part season finale. But this season...not only has the show decided to go for broke when it comes to gore and gags, they're more than happy to unveil exactly what they are up against and it made 'DUI' one of the most fascinating episodes of this season to date.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

It's the fourth episode of #AfterAsh with the Collider Nightmares panel of Perri Nemiroff, Jon Schnepp and Mark Reilly! The official after show of the Starz series 'Ash vs Evil Dead' will now look at episode 4 of the second season with "DUI."

We will be bringing you a new episode after the show every Sunday. So enjoy the show and we'll see you next week! Remember, keep it groovy.

Overall, this is hands down one of the most well paced and well constructed episodes of the show’s currently available 14. Of course, that statement has been made before. Ash is consistently able to top itself just when the chips seem down. That’s the mark of a great genre show. That’s the mark of what makes Ash great.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Whether you prefer a boomstick, nail gun, or chainsaw, you'll have plenty of weapons at your disposal to destroy Deadites in the woods in Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare. A collaboration between Ghost House Pictures, Striker Entertainment, and Boomdash Digital, Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare is a new video game based on 2013's Evil Dead. And with the game now available on the Apple App Store, we have official details and screenshots from Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare.

Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare is a chilling, 1st person, endless runner with cutting edge 3D graphics and an atmospheric soundtrack. Prepare to be immersed within the horror of Evil Dead!

Equipped with iconic Evil Dead weapons such as the chainsaw or shotgun, players must escape the cabin and defend themselves against Deadites, falling trees and swinging vines within the forest. Collect blood droplets, upgrade weapons and prepare to battle against the evil witch to bring the nightmare to an end!

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Director Eli Roth is currently at work on his remake of the 1974 vigilante thriller Death Wish. But the man who brought us the Cabin Fever and Hostel franchises remains a stalwart fan of the horror genre in which he made his filmmaking bones (an appropriate metaphor given he is the man who also brought us 2013’s cannibal movie Green Inferno).

So, what film does Roth regard as the ultimate Halloween watch? The answer is Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic, The Evil Dead.

“Usually, when I’m having a party, I put on the original Evil Dead,” says Roth. “Right from the opening shot, it never stops. It’s one of those movies that everybody loves. It’s always fun. It’s so visually spectacular. I don’t know if people would still be scared by it, the way I was, but if you think about Sam Raimi, that it was made by a 20-year-old kid, or a 21-year-old kid, in the woods with his friends, and they just spent all their money doing it, and they nearly froze to death — the camerawork that he did, putting a camera on his back, strapping it to a motorcycle, it’s so inventive. I think a lot of people have seen the remake but they haven’t seen the original. You can’t go wrong with it.”

I recently chatted to Ray Santiago who plays my favourite, non-Ash, character on the show: Pablo. Very funny and very proud of his place on the programme, Ray was an absolute blast to talk to, and we chat about him being part of the Ross and Rachel of horror television, basing his deadite voice on Eminem, and if the show is going to intersect with any of the upcoming movies.

Ash vs Evil Dead treated its audience to one of television’s most sudden (and violent) endings in the final moments of “Last Call.” As shocking as it was, however, the second season’s third episode stands out for an entirely different — and far more positive — reason: the onscreen reunion of longtime friends and collaborators Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi. Ever since the latter’s older brother, Sam Raimi, directed both in 1981’s The Evil Dead, the pair has become virtually inseparable in front of and behind the camera. Hence why the showrunners’ decision to cast Ted as Ash’s longtime friend and lone Elk Grove supporter, Chet Kaminski, makes so much sense.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

It's the third episode of #AfterAsh with the Collider Nightmares panel of Perri Nemiroff, Clarke Wolfe, Jon Schnepp and Mark Reilly! The official after show of the Starz series 'Ash vs Evil Dead' will now look at episode 3 of the second season with "Last Call."

We will be bringing you a new episode after the show every Sunday. So enjoy the show and we'll see you next week! Remember, keep it groovy.

The much-loved Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs. Evil Dead is back for Season 2, with Ash (Bruce Campbell) returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. Although things with Ruby (Lucy Lawless) are shaky, at best, the former enemies, along with Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) must form an uneasy alliance, if they’re going to survive the growing evil and save the world.

During this exclusive interview with Collider, actor Lee Majors (who plays Brock Williams, Ash’s surly father who is not at all please that his son is back in town) talked about how he got involved with the show, his chemistry with Bruce Campbell, the relationship between Ash and his father, their competitive streak, dealing with all of the blood and gore, and how much he’d love to return for next season. Be aware that there are some spoilers discussed.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

It really is a wonderful world we live in, isn’t it? Who would have thought that by 2016 we would have two movie sequels, several video games, a musical,* a remake and a television sequel (which is awesome and disgusting and just got renewed for a third season) to Sam Raimi’s masterpiece The Evil Dead? The original film saw a wide release in 1983, but its world premiere was at Detroit’s Redford Theater back on October 15, 1981. Since that makes today the film’s 35th anniversary, we invite you to join us in celebrating this beloved horror classic!

On October 15, 1981, director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and actor Bruce Campbell unveiled their passion project feature debut to an audience completely unprepared for what they were about to see. Three years earlier, the very same cast and crew set out to make “Within the Woods”—a short film that would later sprout into a cult horror franchise—completely unprepared for what they were about to make. In both cases, the cause of all this disbelief was the bona fide horror classic The Evil Dead.

The “Unrated Edition” of Evil Dead arrives on digital platforms October 25th. But what is it?

We broke the exclusive news yesterday about the upcoming release, and today we wanted to bring a bit more clarity to this whole thing. For starters, the “Unrated Edition” is the very same version of the film that has aired on television over in the UK, which you may have heard about at some point in the past three years. Director Fede Alvarez refers to this not as an unrated edition or a director’s cut, but rather an extended version; long story short, the “Unrated Edition” is the longest cut of the film, the one that was eventually edited by Alvarez into the version we’ve seen.

It may have taken two-and-a-half decades, but after all that waiting Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have finally managed to bring back Ash Williams! In their hit show ‘Ash vs The Evil Dead‘, our titular hero takes on the threat of our titular villain in order to save the world! Season One hit last year to rousing success, and now Ash and the gang are back for Season Two! This season is going to be jam packed with more Deadites, more violence, and of course, a lot more Ash! We’re even going to get to meet Ash’s father, as played by the legendary Lee Majors! It’s shaping up to be a hell of a second season, so we sat down to talk to Ash himself, Bruce Campbell, at New York Comic Con 2016! Here are some of Bruce’s thoughts on the upcoming season:

The cult classic star looks back on 35 years as blood-soaked, chainsaw-wielding Ash Williams

In a quiet moment away from the hordes of ravenous Deadites (also known as the New York Comic Con crowd), Bruce Campbell–face of Sam Raimi’s cult-classic Evil Dead franchise–sat down with the Observer for an in-depth talk on fandom, fear and fighting the Evil Dead for 35 years.

Thanks to Starz network’s original series “Ash vs Evil Dead,” Bruce Campbell is back as the chainsaw-wielding, “boomstick” carrying, wise-cracking, Deadite-slaying Ash of the “Evil Dead” and “Army of Darkness” franchise. And this time out, Ash has two newbie sidekicks battling the evil dead unleashed by the Necronomicon.

As part of this weekend’s Rock and Shock convention at the DCU Center, “Ash vs Evil Dead” stars Ray Santiago and Dana DeLorenzo (who play Pablo Simon Bolivar and Kelly Maxwell, respectively) will participate in a screening of three episodes of season two at 2 p.m. Saturday, followed by a Q-and-A session at 4 p.m.

Since then, Alvarez went on to direct the incredibly tense Don’t Breathe, which was a huge box office success this summer for both Sony and Ghost House. During his press rounds, Alvarez let the cat out of the bag on the extended cut of Evil Dead, timed with the home video release of Don’t Breathe. While we don’t have info on the latter, yet, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively reveal that Alvarez’s Evil Dead will be getting an “Unrated Edition” release on October 25th, just in time for Halloween.

Being released solely on digital platforms, we also have the exclusive artwork debut and can confirm the new Unrated Edition carries an additional 5-minutes of footage “that was too intense for theaters, allowing fans the perfect chance to see Fede Alvarez’s unedited vision for the film.” This will also be the first time that digital extras will be available on Evil Dead.

Jane Levy, who also starred in Don’t Breathe, took on Deadites in Evil Dead. The modern take followed five friends who head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.

Saturday October 8 was Monster Comic Con in Valparaiso, Indiana. Among the guests were Zombie Park author Mark Cusco Ailes, Tom Sullivan who worked on the Evil Dead movies and screenwriter Jack Olesker for He-Man, Care Bears and Power Rangers.

The beautiful Domino (Samantha Ryan Romero) interviewed several of the guests during the convention. You can watch the video interview here:

It looks like Sitges 2016’s red carpet has no end in sight. When fans still conserve Max von Sydow’s passage in their retinas, stars are continuing to cross through the entrance of the Meliá Hotel Sitges. Bruce Campbell was welcomed today with a standing ovation, at the same time that Walter Koenig received the Time Machine Award in the Auditori, and just moments before director and musician Rob Zombie and actress Sheri Moon –who will be presenting 31 this evening– packed a totally passionate press room.

In episode 202 of ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, “Pablo’s grasp on reality is tested when Ruby reveals the Necronomicon has gifted him with premonitions. Meanwhile, in the morgue, Ash and Kelly discover Brock’s date might not be the warm body he’s banking on.”

Monday, October 10, 2016

Ash vs Evil Dead 2x03 "Last Call" - Local teens raise hell when they steal the Delta from Brock's house. Ash and his best buddy Chet devise a plan to throw a party at the bar, lure the thieves in, and get the Delta and the Necronomicon back. Subscribe for more Ash vs Evil Dead season 2 promos in HD!

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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Ash Vs Evil Dead, in the midst of its second season, is continuing to provide Bruce Campbell with the opportunity to kick evil's ass and stop the demon threat that was unleashed some thirty-five years ago on the big screen in Sam Raimi'sThe Evil Dead. As Ashley "Ash" Williams, he and his ragtag team find themselves immersed in weekly excursions into horror, massive amounts of blood and subversive humor as, in season two, they turn their attention to demonic cleanup in Ash's hometown.

Campbell is obviously having a great time, embracing the fact that no matter what else he does, Ash will remain his most identifiable role, so he's damn well going to make the most of it.

Earlier this week, Starz announced it had renewed Ash vs Evil Dead for a third season that will debut in 2017. Given this, talk of this season’s ratings are mostly moot. However, it is worth noting the show is managing to hold on to its existing live + same day audience with a score of 436,000 viewers for the premiere. That’s only one thousand shy of last year’s series premiere.

More importantly, the hold comes days after Starz released the season two premiere online for free. And again, we still don’t have the big picture because this year Ash vs Evil Dead is available through OTT services like Amazon. It’s very possible the series is raking in well over 1 – 2 million viewers across all platforms. In the case of premium cable, a subscription is a subscription. Demographics don’t matter. So, if Ash is bringing in the digital market, it very much is bringing in some serious revenue to Starz, which is great for the longevity of the series.

The new season of Ash vs. Evil Dead doubled the awesomeness quotient by casting Lee Majors as Ash’s father, so what does Majors think about joining this insane world filled with Deadites?

We caught up with Bruce Campbell and Lee Majors at New York Comic Con to discuss the second season, which kicked off earlier this month on Starz. Lee said he’s definitely been inducted into the horror world with a few buckets of blood, and the duo already seem to have some father-son chemistry going on. When it comes to spoilers, Campbell pulled out a big one (not really): Ash dies, and Lee Majors takes over the show (“It’s a new demographic,” Campbell jokes).

We also ask Majors about some of his quirkiest roles, and he reminiscences about battling Andre the Giant dressed as Bigfoot back in his Six Million Dollar Man days. We’ll just go ahead and warn you the end of that story takes a few … interesting twists.

Author and film historian Bill Warren died this morning following a long, painful illness. He was 73 and he had been suffering from a ghastly array of infections that even a squadron of doctors had been unable to identify. I visited him in the nursing home several times and it just got worse and worse to the point where this past Sunday, he was unable to speak but he waved for me to leave him alone. I was not offended. I understood that he just didn't want visitors to see him like that.

Bill was born in North Bend, Oregon and grew up in Gardiner, Oregon. At an early age, he became fascinated by science-fiction and movies, particularly after seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still. He read avidly and contributed by mail to the legendary Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, which influenced a vast number of folks who became filmmakers, authors and artists. In 1966, he and his wife Beverly moved to Los Angeles where he worked as an assistant for a time to the magazine's editor, Forrest J Ackerman. I met Bill at Ackerman's famous home, The Ackermansion (the first one) sometime around late '66 or early '67. Bill was, by the way, no relation to that magazine's publisher, James Warren.

Bill wrote for the magazine and for countless publications about film, especially movies of a science-fiction or horror nature. At some point, he began compiling data for a wonderful book he would finally publish in 1982 called Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties. It's the best history of such films and it's been reprinted and updated several times since. The latest edition, which came out earlier this year, can be ordered here. (If the price seems steep, take a look at the page count and you'll understand.)

His other books include Set Visits: Interviews with 32 Horror and Science Fiction Filmmakers and The Evil Dead Companion. He wrote for hundreds of different publications, including several stints as a film critic and his contributions to Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, plus scripts for Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella.

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like the world is going to get more Bruce Campbell as Starz has greenlighted a third season of Ash vs. Evil Dead. The 10-episode Season 3 is set to debut around next fall, I hear.

The news comes just five days after the second season of the series from EPs Campbell, Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Craig DiGregorio debuted on the cable net. It also comes one day after Ash vs. Evil Dead appeared at New York Comic-Con in the Hammerstein Ballroom. That panel featured the ever-loquacious Campbell, who plays Ash Williams in the series and the original Evil Dead movies, plus co-star Lucy Lawless. Fellow cast members Dana DeLorenzo, Ray Santiago, Ted Raimi and Lee Majors, who debuted as Ash’s father in S2 of the series.

On a very competitive Sunday, the Season 2 debut of Ash pulled in 733,000 viewers over all its airings that night. That’s a 14% uptick over the Season 1 premiere on the Saturday of October 31, 2015. Among adults 18-49, Ash was up an impressive 63% over the S1 opener.

Season 2 of the series found Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove. There, he confronts Ruby (Lawless), and the former enemies must form an uneasy alliance as the town becomes the nucleus of evil. “There are more nozzles, this year, on the blood-delivery stem,” Campbell quipped about S2 during the Ash vs. Evil Dead TCA panel in August. “They can do a wider spread of blood.”

Bruce Campbell reprises his most famous role in Starz series “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” which begins its second season this month. He shares exec producer credit on the series with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, who first collaborated on the 1983 film “The Evil Dead.” The trio started with a Super 8 short film, “Within the Woods,” which was designed to lure investors for a big-screen version. As Campbell recently told Variety, “We said, ‘Hey, if you like this, we can do it bigger, better, longer! And it’ll be in 16 millimeter!’ ” They made the film for $350,000, and the Feb. 9, 1983, review marked Campbell’s first mention in these pages. Though the review was mostly positive, the actor recently said, “Here is my favorite quote ever: ‘Dynamic sound is overbearing.’ We worked a lot on the sound, actually. We wanted it to be dynamic.”

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless hit New York Comic-Con today to talk about the second season of their STARZ series Ash vs. Evil Dead. Joining them were co-stars Ray Santiago (Pablo), Dana DeLorenzo (Kelly), Lee Majors (Brock Williams), Ted Raimi (Chet Kaminski) and Michelle Hurd (Linda B.) for a preview of the new season, the premiere screening of the second episode… and the usual Bruce Campbell panel magic.

The Ash vs. Evil Dead panel began with the crowd being given foam hand chainsaws, which were put to good use.

Benson started with Lee Majors, asking if he was an Ash or Evil Dead fan before this. His answer, “Nope.”

He continued with the story of seeing the first season, which he called a “Bat-shit crazy ride.” He was chased down on the lot by Campbell, and told him “I’d love to play your dad.”

Campbell gushed about getting an icon like Lee Majors (whom he described as being an ‘ass-grabbing ladies man’ in his heyday, born with hair on his body and known for his impressive man cleavage.

Bruce Campbell went on to describe where we’re at in season 2 – in the way that only Bruce Campbell can. He talked about Ted’s character, Ray, and how we shouldn’t cheer for him, as he’s a dude who leaves women’s drinks laced with “K” and never left his hometown.

“Only losers stay in Elk Grove?” Benson asked.

“Yup,” Campbell answered.

Campbell signaled out Ted, Raimi, who has appeared all over the Evil Dead franchise (as feet in the original; Possessed Henrietta in EV2; as several extras in Army of Darkness). Campbell used Ted as a jumping off point to tease fans about other faces from the franchise that will be making cameo appearances in AvsED seaon 2. “We know you want your ‘Holy Sh*t’ moments,” Campbell said, assuring fans that the show would deliver just that.

Fans, alumni, and the cast of Ash vs. the Evil Dead returned to MSU for the premiere of the spectacular second season. After the show, cast members Bruce Campbell, Lucy Lawless, Ted Raimi, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and writer Ivan Raimi held a Q&A panel where they gave students valuable filmmaking advice.

One of the joys of Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead is all the little nods and Easter eggs to the original Evil Dead movies. But in terms of characters to make the leap from the big to the small screen, it’s just pretty much the titular Ash, as played by star Bruce Campbell. (Well, him and his trusty Delta Oldsmobile, that is.)

On this S-Class Interview we have a chat with Ray Santiago. Ray Santiago plays Pablo from Ash Vs. Evil Dead. We mostly talk about Ash Vs. Evil Dead, but there are a few other off topic subjects covered.

Ray Santiago:

Twitter: @RealRaySantiago
Instagram: @RealRaySantiago

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“Because of the success of our Evil Dead 2 Board Game Kickstarter, we had to delay the release of some of our upcoming Evil Dead 2 comics,” Space Goat President Shon Bury said. “But in order to make it up to our loyal Evil Dead fans and comic retailers, we wanted to put on a big celebration of all things Evil Dead.”

The cornerstone of the event is the Evil Dead Days contest put on by Space Goat Productions. Evil Dead fans just have to post a picture of themselves with Space Goat’s Evil Dead 2 comics on Facebook or Twitter with #evildeaddays. Space Goat will pick their top 3 favorites out of all entries to win Evil Dead 2 prizes. First place is a deluxe copy of Evil Dead 2: The Official Board Game (valued at $80), Second Place is Frank Hannah’s Evil Dead 2 graphic novel trilogy (Valued at $58.97), while Third place is a $25 gift card for MerchGoat.com.

Space Goat Publishing will also host Twitter viewing events of all the Evil Dead movies where fans can join in. Space Goat will be holding the online events at the following times:

On October 19th at 7PM PST: Evil Dead (1981), on October 21st at 7PM PST: Evil Dead 2, on October 26th at 7PM: Army of Darkness and on October 27th at 7PM: Evil Dead (2013). Fans just need to follow @gospacegoat and tweet using the hashtag #evildeaddays to join in.

Ash vs. Evil Dead returned on Starz this week, with a gory, hilarious, terrifying, and action-packed episode that proved they lost nothing in the transition from season 1 to season 2. As both star and executive producer, Bruce Campbell's work toward making Ash vs. Evil Dead the very best of Ash's stories is easy to see on the screen, as his love for the character is easy to hear in conversation. Talking with Comicbook.com about the second season of the show, Campbell said there's no other hero like Ash, and none he'd rather play.

It's the very first episode of #AfterAsh with the Collider Nightmares panel of Perri Nemiroff, Clarke Wolfe, Jon Schnepp and Mark Reilly! They are the official after show of the Starz series 'Ash vs Evil Dead' and will be bringing you a new episode after the show every Sunday. So enjoy the show and we'll see you next week! Remember, keep it groovy.

Ash vs Evil Dead 2x02 "The Morgue" - Pablo's grasp on reality is tested when Ruby reveals the Necronomicon has gifted him with premonitions. Meanwhile, in the morgue, Ash and Kelly discover Brock's date might not be the warm body he's banking on. Subscribe for more Ash vs Evil Dead season 2 promos in HD!